Hi, I'm Lachlan

I'm a Mormon Missionary. I was an atheist.

About Me

I was born in 1984. My parents have lived in the same house for my whole life. I graduated from high school with an O.P.1. I attend 4 years of unversity studying a Bachelor of science/Bachelor of I.T. dual degree. I never graduated from that course and started working in retail full time. I spent the next 4 years working until I had the prompting from the spirit that I must go on a mission. That is where I am now.

Why I am a Mormon

I was an atheist. I had some believe in karma (what goes around comes around), but I didn't believe in God. I had been to many christian churches in my youth so I understood the christian belief and doctrine, as well as the stories of Christ. I never felt the spirit in those places. I met a girl in my last year of high school. We started dating. I knew her beliefs and I wanted no part of them. They wern't what I believed and she was entitled to believe what she wanted. One week she came back from a trip to the temple with a hard cover copy of the Book of Mormon with a copy of her testimony inside. Reading her testimony I was overcome by a warm feeling from head to toe and I knew that what she had said in her testimony was true. God lived, that he was watching us and that this was the true church on the earth.

Personal Stories

Why do Mormons go on missions?

For many different reasons. Mostly because we know how much that the knowledge that we teach has helped our own lives so much that we want others to feel the same peace and joy we feel.
We don't want any of God's children to miss out on the blessings that we have recieved and know that everyone is entitled to them.
Through living this gospel we are able to return to live with our Father in Heaven again and we don't want anyone to miss out on that.

How I live my faith

I am a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I spend 24 hours a day 7 days a week teaching people of what I believe and Know to be true. Anytime I am not teaching I am studying the Gosepl to understand it better and when I am not doing either of those 2 things I am finding people to teach or serving others in the community.

What is the First Vision?

Lachlan answered...

The First Vision is an experience Jospeh Smith had as a young man. He prayed to Heavenly Father to know which church was true. He prayed in a Grove of trees near by his house and he explains he experience in the following way "I saw a pillar of light above the brightness of the sun, which decended gradually until it fell upon me. When the light rested upon me, I saw two personages. Whose brightness and glory defy all description. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other "This is my beloved son. Hear Him!"
God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Jospeh Smith in the spring of 1820. That is the First Vision.
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How can we come to know our Father in Heaven?

Richard Maden answered...

Just start out with a small prayer to God and just this one act will start you on a path that will bring you into a relationship with Him. Don't be afraid to ask for guidance from the missionaries this is the thing they live for.